Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context...

Between 1514 and 1867, an estimated 12.5 million enslaved Africans forcibly left the continent destined for the Americas. Nevertheless, an important proportion of the captives generated by wars and raids did not cross the Atlantic Ocean remaining on African soil. Slavery was an important element in Africa even before the arrival of Europeans. However, the slave trade transformed slavery from a marginal institution into a central element of African societies. In fact, after the prohibition of slave exports in the nineteenth century, the use of captives in productive activities intensified within Africa.1

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more.

Photographs and Graphic Works at the National Archives - This is another wonderful source of information on dating historical images.

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During the Freedom Summer of 1963, CORE organized demonstrations in parishes north of Baton Rouge where there were large concentrations of unregistered Blacks. Photographs of student activists canvassing and preparing potential Black voters and escorted them to courthouses. Includes photographs for EBONY magazine assignment on Reverend Joe Carter, the first Black man to register to vote in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, which was 80% to 90% Black.

Digital archive of materials related to West Feliciana Parish history.